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From A. R. Wallace   8 March [1868]

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On critical exchanges at the Linnean Society on natural selection and mimicry.

Roland Trimen’s paper on South African mimetic butterflies ["On some remarkable mimetic resemblances among African butterflies", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 26 (1870): 497–523; read 5 Mar 1868].

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Mar [1868]
Classmark:  DAR 106: B51–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5996

From Henry Doubleday   8 March 1868

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Proportion of sexes in Lepidoptera.

Sexual preference.

Role of coloration [see Descent 1: 311–12].

Author:  Henry Doubleday
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Mar 1868
Classmark:  DAR 85: B47–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5997

From W. S. Dallas   8 March 1868

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Expresses his pleasure at the opportunity of meeting CD.

Author:  William Sweetland Dallas
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Mar 1868
Classmark:  DAR 162: 18
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5998
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4.10 'Hornet' caricature of Darwin

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< Back to Introduction Caricatures of Darwin that depicted him as a semi-ape are numerous and well known, but they marked a specific historical moment. Most date from the period following the publication of Descent of Man in 1871-2, extending through…

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  • … and bibliography The Hornet , 5:115 (22 March 1871), p. 308 and following plate. [James Duncan …

The Mount, Shrewsbury

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Letters from home

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  • … Darwin writes in preparation for the voyage, and his father and sisters write with news from home …

3.11 Edwards, in Illustrated London News

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< Back to Introduction A photograph of Darwin by Ernest Edwards, showing him in three-quarter view to the left, must have been taken at the same session as the profile published in Men of Eminence in 1866. The baggy sleeve of Darwin’s coat looks…

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  • … on p. 243. Harper’s Weekly , 15:745 (8 April 1871), p. 308, wood engraving with the same caption, …